Is this what MS and Razorskier1 do all winter?

[Horton]

 

http://yettifishhouse.com/

[skidawg]

looks like a reason to drink heavily

[thager]

That's pretty close except there's always lots of bottle bass!

[Razorskier1]

Ah, I don't do that. I sit in my warm living room and drink and wonder what it is about ice fishing that people like -- makes no sense! (except for drinking and playing cards with your buddies in a heated fish house!)

[Bruce_Butterfield]

That's the ticket! Get out of the house and be cooped up in a tiny freezing shack. But I can see MS passed out on the floor of one of those things, Eh?

[The_MS]

My house has a 42 inch flat screen, Direct TV and an oven. I hope to spend Sat/Sun/Mon in it.

[Mrs_MS]

I would like some sympathy dammit!!! Lol

[Wish]

Why the add for the fish house will not help sell them.

 

No beer to be seen

Kids present

Wife present

 

What's even crazier is the number of OLD trailer campers being converted to these things that lower over the ice. That alone has become a big business.

 

 

[6balls]

Crazy thing is I'll bet there is more participation in ice fishing in the states where water actually freezes over than there is in competitive skiing nation-wide. Having said that no, no, no...never gone ice fishing, never will. I look at that big pile of ice out there and can't wait til it thaws.

[Wish]

There were ice fishing contests on our lake (damn near festivals) growing up that would dwarf any regional waterski championship.

[disland]

Does the Ice fishing contest require video? What are the requirements to become an ice fishing judge? Does the USA ice fishing federation spend their summers reviewing the video and scoring deviation of line tension and angle and making sure loores are in spec

[m_pags]

@disland I think the answer maybe Yes on this one. : ) Brainerd Jaycees icefishing.org/

[6balls]

@disland they just make sure there are no sinkers in the belly...ya know they bring in airport scanners...just run the fish through.

[Bruce_Butterfield]

@MRS_MS, since you have to put up with MS, you have the sympathy of everyone on this board!

[Zoro957]

Why is it that the ice fisherman have to start their power augers about 50 feet from my bedroom window at 6AM on a Saturday morning? I seem some guys go out at 6 AM and don't come out until 8-9 at night. They must hate their spouses!

[Fine409]

@Zoro957 My dad would always say the same thing. Also "don't they know that the grocery store sells fish?"

[The_MS]

@Zoro957 Benefits of living on the lake.

[dbski]

Several years ago in the depth of winter I'm sitting watching some tube. My living room has large windows facing the lake and its snowing horizontally with a temperature of about 12 degrees. It's about 10:00 at night and I look outside and see a light in the middle of the lake. I get the binos out and sitting on a 5 gallon bucket with a coleman lantern is a guy fishing by himself. My only thought was this guys homelife must really suck if freezing your ass off in the middle of a lake is better!

[Horton]

Was most likely Mrs @thager looking for a moment of solace.

[Razorskier1]

One of my neighbors posted this today. He plows the best hockey rink every year. Boards, scoreboard, lights - the total package. Guess he was on the ice too soon!

 

 

[thager]

@Horton ???

 

[Horton]

Mrs Horton just told me that thing is not supposed to be in the water

[Hockdog]

Maybe he forgot to put the plug in before he launched..........

[The_MS]

Frozen Balls

[DaveD]

Is he trying a new way to control the weeds in the lake?

[Fast351]

I know there are at least two people with pickups in White Bear Lake in the last week or two. That goes to show you the IQ level of SOME of the people ice fishing.

 

That said it is kinda cool to pull dinner through the ice. Nothing better than fresh walleye.

 

[skihacker]

This morning I woke up to a miniature village on the pond all set up before sunrise, it was probably 16 degrees. My wife says she had seen a flyer.......perch derby......NO......NO FREAKING WAY.